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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Laserwriters vs. Transfer modes
Keywords: Laserwriter postscript modes regions
Message-ID: <5193@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 20 Nov 88 16:47:56 GMT
References: <6496@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <26879@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
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In article <26879@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:

>                            As for regions, they are one of Apple's big
>trade secrets. 

Region format was documented in MacTutor earlier this year.  The thing that
makes them ugly from a postscript viewpoint is that they are BITmaps, not
outlines.  They don't scale well.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)